A social high jump on a Saturday morning (12 August 2024)

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Speaker 1 (00:07):
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Speaker 3 (00:13):
Welcome. Good evening, eight oh seven. Myn name is Marcus
head on mednugg A lot to say about the Olympics.
In fact, I got so much to say. I don't
know where to start. Best and worst so good, But
the weekend sport, that basketball match, Gee, that American basketball
team Kevin Durant, how good were they? Steff. I couldn't

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believe it. I just couldn't believe it. And you watch
American basketball for so long and it's so competitively. They're
on the same team, and it's like even they feel
freaked out by they're playing on the same team. Loved it,
just loved it. So watched all of that, watched the
last nine holes probably of Lydia Coe, and that was

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and even having known that she'd got the gold, it
was nerve wrecking to watch.

Speaker 4 (01:01):
Now.

Speaker 3 (01:01):
I don't want to, but kind of I do get
into an argument about which medal means the most, but
Lydia Co four days, four days competing for a medal
in a sport that millions play, tick tick to be

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the hardest medal to be won. There wouldn't it apart
from the one hundred meters sprint, because you need to
have an extraordinary advantage with him metabolism to win that.
But Lydia Coe's medal, I just couldn't believe how good
that was. Obviously meant something to her and that was

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the dream for me. I would have liked the sprint,
would have gone there and done something, but for her
to get that unbelievable. So I loved watching that, just
loved it. Means and Women's marathon. Watched both of those.
Commentary wasn't great one guy, I think probably he thought

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he could probably wanted himself if he was going on
that much about it. But it was good, huge steep
sections and they kept going on about the world record,
Olympic record. I thought when it came to the marathon,
there wasn't such a thing as a world record, so
that was surprising to me. He didn't watch a single
bit of the closing ceremony, and I'm glad I'm not
a big Tom Cruise fan, but he wasn't it. They

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saw none of that, but so many highlights. For me,
I've tried to understand the whole story with the Australian
breakdancer ray Gun, because that did look terrible. In fact,
I watched the breakdancing that was a fail. I thought
it'd be indoors as kind of was surprised it was
outdoors on a round stage. I thought that was weird.

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And the Australian ray Gun was she was terrible and
I still don't quite know what's gone on with her.
I thought there'd be more interviews with her in the
Australian press that just say kind of why she was
so terrible, and in fact, not only was she terrible,
but probably she actually I think that she disrespected that

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form of dance of breaking. That would be my take
on that. When she was doing the kangaroo and the
snake and the wombat and various other things, it wasn't good.
So I don't think it's coming back next time. In
Los Angeles, there's like non contact grid Ion go figure.

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There's also an American Ninja Warrior based obstacle course. Well
that will be huge. But yeah, I just thought the
New Zealand effort absolutely extraordinary. I was fortunate enough to
catch all the cycling last night. I went to bed
just before the last match in the Omnium. They didn't
think we'd be in the middle contention for that, so

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I feel kind of bad quitting out on that one.
But the sprint race, to go two from two in
both the semi and the final was just unbelievable. So yeah,
for the first week, I said two weeks is not
long enough. There's too much sport. But by the end
of it, I was just yeah, cup was full, just

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absolutely loved it. I don't know what it means for
I mean, if I know guys on about the Halburg,
don't they I mean, i'd give it to co that's
my take, but I'm sure they'll go with Carrington. I
watched a bit of the modern pentathlon last night. That's
a wacky old thing. They're running then shooting, but it
already had fencing competition to be on a horse, so yeah,

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that was bizarro. I wish kiwis were better at the marathon.
I wish there are people in the leading bunch. I
thought it would be good if we could have see
some kiwis. But the good thing now was with cell phones,
you can follow along at home and see whether you know,
there's so much information now you can look at the course,
you can look at the field and where they are
on the course, I think probably where in the golden

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age of watching sport. I think that's kind of why
it didn't really matter that the rugby wasn't crash hot
on Saturday night. I watched it. It was exciting, but
it was exciting right to the end because it could
have gone either way. I know they are disappointed that
there was plenty of spare seats at the Caketon. That's
a worry. I also see they're stuck with those shirts

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with a collar. That's also a worry. So you've got
some quick comments on the Olympics before we can put
that away and be nice to hear from you for that,
your highlights, your lowlight. It's just what you thought. Because
I thought it was the best ever by a country mile.
And that's because there was no coved where there was COVID,
but that's because there were crowds and there was a
general kind of an upbeat vibe to it, and the

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French seemed lovely and they got right behind their athletes.
So yeah, I just all in for that. I just
thought it was fantastic. So if you want to comment
on that eight hundred and eighty nine, I know some
of you are into what happens in the sky, and
there is a or what would you call it, a

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close association. Mars and Jupiter are about to make their
closest approach to each other this decade, appearing to nearly
touch the night sky early tomorrow morning. From our perspective
here on Earth, they will appear so close to their
hair could separate them. In reality, it's more than five

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hundred and seventy five million kilometers apart in their respective orbits.
It's a planetary conjunction. These phenomena are fairly common because
the Solar systems all but the Sun on a flat
plan known as the elliptic. This conjunction will be visible
to the naked eye from anywhere on Earth, depending on

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whether the pair will rise in the east around three am,
and visible from then until sunrise, arching across north across
the sky. The orbits have not brought them this close together,
one behind the other since twenty eighteen. It won't happen
again until twenty thirty three. The closest approach of the

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past millioniar occurred in seventeen sixty one, when their planets
appeared to the naked eye as a single bright Object
who would have been alive in seventeen sixty one to
see it, Copernicus Geppler, who knows, maybe even Captain Cook
could have seen that. I think he was around that time.
But get in touch. Let's just do the last comment

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on the Olympics. Just sensational. I've always been of an
Olympic Olympics skeptic. Marcus first, the first ever KIWI in
the Golf Hall of Fame. I agree with you, Halberg
and a dame absolutely absolutely, and she had options, but

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she wanted to represent in Z and she certainly there
was no doubt she was representing Endzed. The whole black
out for the cap, everything about it, it was great.
It was just absolutely well, how could you do that?
How could you play golf for four days with that
pressure and be that calm? Marcus had no idea bizarre

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water polo was absolutely nothing like polo. Polo should be
called water handball. Of course, it should be called water handball.
It's misnamed. You've called that one out, Dame Lydia Coe
just saying by the best, by far, the best performance
of the games in my eyes. You know, it's funny
because the media is so kind of fragmented now. I

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don't know if there was any interviews with her overnight
or anyone saw it, but certainly I loved it, just
absolutely loved it. Pretty tricky course, Marcus, just thought your
listeners who liked their sports would like to know that
the Para Olympics start on the twenty half of Wallust.
It's been shown free to air on TV and Z one.

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It's also been showing on five channels through TV and
Z plus. Mary. Thank you, Mary, keep your calls coming
through eight hundred and eighty eight eighty and nine to
nine two detect looking forward to what you've got to say.
Let's just mop up the Olympics with your comments quickly.
Be lovely to hear from you, Dame Lydia Coe just saying,
by the best, by far, the best performance of the

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games in my eyes. You know, it's funny because the
media is so kind of fragmented now. I don't know
if there was any interviews where overnight or anyone saw it,
but certainly I loved it, just absolutely loved it. Pretty
tricky course, Marcus, just thought your listeners who liked their
sports would like to know that the Pera Olympics start
on the twenty half of August. It's been shown free

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to air on TV and Z one. It's also been
showing on five channels through TV and Z Plus. Mary.
Thank you, Mary, keep your calls coming through. Oh, eight
hundred and eighty eight, ten eighty and nine to nine
two de text looking forward to what you've got to say.
Let's just mop up the Olympics with your comments quickly,
be lovely to hear from you anything else, Boom, get

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in touch, as I say. Eight hundred eighty ten eighty
and nine to nine two detexts Marcus till twelve and
also too, if you're going to get up early for
the conjunction and the planets tomorrow, we see if I
can remember the names of the planets Mars and Jupiter,
there'll be a hair breadth apart. Even though the hair

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breadth is like five hundred and seventy five million kilometers apart,
it's kind of extraordinary. I'll bet to make sure I've
got that number right, not misquoted, that I'm on it.
Five hundred and seventy five million the hair breadth. It's
kind of hard to know why they didn't say light years,
but there you go. Anyway, get in touch by name

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is Marcus Hittle twelve? Anything else you want to check
in the mix? Yeah, but ninja. Let's hope we get
someone in the ninja mind you. I think if we
said before the Olympics that we're going to get more
gold than bronze, big tick because normally we're like second
and third and fourth is what we do well at.

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So that was sensational. And to get so many of them,
and to get them not just on the water, but
the golf and the high jump and the silver and
the pot and the cycling. So many at the Vlodrome
loved it all. Don't know what it means for funding.
Kind of like to steer well clear of all of

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that because always gets a bit tricky and complicated. But anyway,
eight hundred eighty nine text, be nice to hear from you.
By the way, the Women's Tour de France is on today,
so you're missing your sport. And by the way, the
reckon Glasgow is going to hope the host of the
calm game ms no interest. That's me. Knock yourself out. Hi, Michael,

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good evening greetings.

Speaker 5 (12:15):
Hi Marcus, how are you good?

Speaker 6 (12:17):
Good?

Speaker 3 (12:17):
Thank you?

Speaker 4 (12:20):
Yeah, I think she's totally right Lydia was the medal
of the game, although we had a great spread cross
all genre of sports.

Speaker 6 (12:29):
But I think four days.

Speaker 5 (12:32):
She didn't have the best first round, which.

Speaker 7 (12:34):
You know was playing if you've played golf, but it
plays at the mental game.

Speaker 3 (12:39):
I think, oh, Michael, I don't think you need to
play to imagine that. It must be terrifying.

Speaker 6 (12:44):
Yeah, absolutely, and then to go I think it was was.

Speaker 3 (12:54):
Great start, Mike. I've gotta let's put your back on
a whole, Michael. I'll get Dan to come back and
do the shaking houties with it and the old reach
around and see if we can sort something out with that.
Because I like what you've got to say. And it's
churlish to think what's the pick of the medals, But
clearly some medals are harder to win than others. I
mean they're all hard, they're all Olympic medals, but some
of them are. It seems as a lot of you're

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competing for a lot of days and a sport that's
really competitive. Trevor Marcus, welcome.

Speaker 8 (13:23):
Hey Maericans. How are you?

Speaker 2 (13:26):
Trevin?

Speaker 3 (13:26):
Do you want to know how I am?

Speaker 9 (13:28):
No, you've probably told us twice or he is to night.
So yeah, you'll be good. You always are. You're happy,
go lucky. But yeah, just on the Olympics, I mean,
just what an event and just put in another world.
You know you have a bit of a grumpy week
and that, but just watching those Olympics and you know
they're all magnificent. There's a couple I want to talk
about as the high jumping. No, I've been watching them
for a long time. I always just think, oh, New Zealand.

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You know New Zealand's high jumping not for New Zealand.
You know, you see the Americans and you see the
Europeans that I do remember years ago there was a
lady high jumper from New Zealand might have got a
medal in a Commonwealth Games, Taney as someone. But you know,
just to think that a New Zealander one high jumping,
I just think that's magnificent. But the one I really

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want to say is Lydia Coe. Look, you know Lydia co.
You know I just looked at Lydia ever since she
come to New Zealand, and you know she was magnificent.
In the last round, she come out in black, done
what you saw in the first shyear round. She played
in a white outfit. It's a fine but she'd come
out on the final day in black and she just
looked as though she was so proud to be wearing that.

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And you know, and I remember when Lydia come to
New Zealand. She was I think she was four, and
she was a gold prodigy then. And you know, I
just want to say to people, you know, Lydia's mum
and dad, they come from Korea, probably probably not from
great backgrounds in that, and they must have had a
dream and they come to New Zealand, probably for a
better life than Lydia had a talent. And Lydia, you know,

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her parents, it was a bit of talk when her
parents made her play golf tourdents and she'd come. She'd
mention that, you know, she missed out on a few
school outings and things like that. But obviously her parents
I presumed she was sent her appearance. You know, just
just kept up with her, and you know, she just
went on and what she's achieved. She's twenty seven, She's
already in the Hall of Fame for golfers ever played

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the woman's game. I saw her on round three. She
was playing with the French lady that was leading with her,
and she's that friend's lady has done a couple of
beautiful parts. And as I was going in that Lydia
put her arm up to say, what a you know,
what a magnificent stroke. And she is just you know,
she's just a thing that you know, any Zealand still,

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if you have a dream and you work hard, it's
endless what you can achieve real. I just really believe
that her and her family, you know, twenty five years later,
Olivia's worth twenty five million and she's done really well.

Speaker 3 (15:52):
Fore, I agree, because she was all class and I
think and obviously absolutely meant something to her. She was determined.
That was her bucketless thing, and you could see how
proud she was and that end z thing at the
end of it. You know, it was incredibly moving to watch.
I think in some ways it was more moving than
watching the person that had run the marathon. Mind you
should probably done as much distance as the marathon over

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four days. Yeah, agree, and tirely with your Trevor Henriette's
Marcus Welcome good evening.

Speaker 10 (16:23):
Yeah, heymous, sure, I think it was you know, the
big favorite one for me because he just quite come
out of nowhere, you know, the whoy dumpspeenee and stay one,
and he wasn't really ranked to coin and win. I
don't think and just look at it, you know.

Speaker 3 (16:38):
And I think people think that Kiwis are quite down
to worth. We're not the people. I mean, that's like
jumping your door. That's I people don't think we're called
and lean and jumpy, do we We're sort of more low.

Speaker 10 (16:49):
Yeah, you know, it's just it was just, you know,
it was just a big big thing for that God,
wasn't it.

Speaker 3 (16:54):
You know, I missed it in the middle of them.
I missed it in the middle of the night. Did
was he keen to share the gold with the other
guy and the other guy wasn't keen? Is that the
way it panned out?

Speaker 10 (17:04):
Yeah, but you know, hey, it's just the Kiwis. It's
where they are, right.

Speaker 3 (17:08):
Well, that's how he was so that the American guy says,
let's not share, and he said, okay, let's go for
the rejap right. Yeah, okay, brilliant Henry, thank you. It's
all about the mop up. And this is what you do.
You do get the Halburg Tawny and Murray won the
high jump of the Calm Games and Aucklands. Same things
happened to her. The hype went down until down, up down,

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until someone cleared the bar chairs and Marcus. I believe
both Hamish and the American wanted to jump off. They
both didn't want to share the gold. You know what
I miss? Once upon a time you have the Olympics,
and then you'd have co and the high jump, all
of them. Kind of the next night on the home

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show you sort of see them talking to the nation.
We haven't got that kind of spot we go now
where they appear. The media is too fractured. Don't have anything.
We get the all blacks on here anymore, do we?
I wonder how they've been with their availability. Lydia wasn't
put off by her playing partners not performing well on Sunday.

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The Swiss woman even had a shank on the eighteenth
all about the Olympics. Lydia co unbelievable and even put
her above the high because people don't recreationally high jump,
do they? I suppose some do. I guess probably a
lot of these people, like Hamish Skurit. It's probably been
very hard to get funding, because you know it's hard

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to get promotion and funding when you're doing something like
high jumping. I don't know who your natural sponsor is
for the high jump. Who would you know? Like a
brewery is going to want to sponsor you? Are they anyway?
Get in touch. My name is Marcus Hurdle twelve. Good evening, Mary,
It's Marcus welcome. Sorry, my fault button's not clearly pushed. Hi, Marty,

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it's Marcus welcome.

Speaker 11 (19:07):
I've been a huge fan of theirs for years. And
one other thing that is Rory is disappointed me that
she hasn't been given the true recognition. And but if
you look at her record, and I have had this out,
she's had one hundred and seven top tens, and that's remark.

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If you go through any other golfer, there's nobody there
who almost matched it. That's up to Tiger Woods. And
if you look at a record now, okay, with the
winners and everything else at her age, there's that question
the woman should be made a dame, if she should
be made a day years ago, And like I was
talking to my wife about her, and like even you
compare it to the Great Survive Child but you know,

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you've meine giving her the correcognition she you do and
what is going to do for a woman's golf.

Speaker 3 (19:56):
Martie when you said when you said, compare her to
Sir Bob Charles, who won one mart You know that's
that's that's really telling at all sorts of levels, isn't it,
Because because she's one real.

Speaker 11 (20:10):
Well yeah, but you can't bear hearers to hear us
And I'm not I'm not degrading what Bob Charles is done.
And you know, but you know, but to me, what
she is achieved in golf at the level she's at.
And the other thing, which to me is even more remarkable,
is okay that you like, she's went through the period

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like a few years ago, where she rocked by them
with the game, but she managed to get out of
that and then she was for now even with this
is okay. She wanted a tournam appearly on in the
year and she had bitted herself and she went through
another period where okay, she lost in golf site and
just like the exports, and she went through that. But
she's got that mental hardness to say, okay, he look,

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I'm going to put my herself together and get it done.
And there's very very few people who can do what
she can do and then go around the corner. And
she watched just at the Olympics. So I just think,
you know, I what I'm she going to do, Marcus,
I ain't going to it. I'm actually going to contact
the Golf Association and I'm also going to send a
letter to as a minister's sport somehow get it the Okay,

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she gets a golf she's got because she's going to
be nominated by by the Golfersation for her to get it.
I just think it's you know, no Brier.

Speaker 3 (21:25):
Marty, you said you follow golf quite closely. Did I
get that correct? Yeahs a sense that she's won so
many and that that she won this because she really
this was the one that she really wanted to and
focused on and some of the other things she's been
there done that this was the last one that's Is

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there a sense that that she really got up for
this because that was just sheer about what she wanted
and needed to do. That That don sounds eloquent as
I thought in my head.

Speaker 11 (21:53):
But I think what she's done, Marcus, is she's gone okay,
every time she goes and she goes into woman anyway.
But what she also has gone into this one is okay,
she knew the form was it was getting close to
because she had she had a top ten in the
previous game. But she also proves that, okay, if she could.

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She also knew that if she could get a game
together right, she should be there or thereabouts. But the
thing about her is, okay, I don't know. Obviously, the Olympics,
for any person, whether it's golf or paying table tenners,
is the pennacle. Now she'd already wanted too, so in
the back of her mind she wanted to say, hey,

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if I'm going to go out, I want to go
out in this. But what a way to go out, mate.

Speaker 3 (22:39):
Yeah, she's just she had the experience of the last
two Olympics too, to be in the top three, So
she knew what that she knew what was going to be.

Speaker 11 (22:49):
Because when you won twenty seven times and you've achieved
what she's achieved, like she's not, she's Tiger Woods, like
you know, it's never going to be far away.

Speaker 3 (23:01):
Yeah, good luck with your literating, Marty, because I'm right
behind you. I think that's when you look at Dave
Valerie Adams and Dame Lisa Carrington too. They've both been
extraordinary athletes. But it's difficult to compare all sorts of sport.
But that is a you know, that is I would
think almost in terms of competition and signed up people

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to play golf, that would be the most subscribed to sport.
There is be more people playing women's golf than any
other sport apart from men's golf obviously high Terriot's Marcus, Welcome.

Speaker 12 (23:37):
Hillo, Marcus. Two quick things I want to talk to
you about sport. Run Lydia Coe to me was the
highlight for me at the Olympics. I love of these
other things like oh well, shall we say a sprint?
It's over in ten and a half seconds of a
shop with Soviet and you chuck a rock down the

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track and twenty years you either in or out. But
she it went on for day after day after day.
What she went through and from the fourteenth hole onwards
it made you linger. You didn't know whether she's going
to make a mistake, so you had the fourteenth or

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fifteenth and right threat of the eighteenth hole just won
mistake and she was back to eight, equal with the
girls who was in the clubhouse, and that to me
was just sufferb and her mother stay at the end
of it. I loved all that and just to me
she was number one. And can I quickly for one

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minute talked to you about the rugby as well?

Speaker 3 (24:43):
Absolutely?

Speaker 12 (24:44):
Okay, right in the Test match against South the Argentinians.
I'll say one thing in all ball sports, whether it's hockey, soccer,
league or rugby, the most important thing in the whole

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game is a word called possession. Now, our eight forwards
fought by hell in the lineouts, that's if the bloody
thing was thrown in straight. They fought to get the ball.
In the scrums, they fought to get the ball. In
the rucks, they fought to get the ball. And it

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goes back to the half back. And this chap from
Wellington TJ something He box kicks it. Now there's bloody
word box kick. I've never heard of it before until
a few years ago. And box kick means you kick
it back over the rack and hope to hell the

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opposition fumble and drop the ball so that you can
come through, pick up the ball and you're on your
way for a try right, that might happen one in
ten that they drop the ball, but the other bloody
nine you've given away possession and your eight forwards had
just gone through hell and high water to get the ball,

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and he kicks the boody thing over their heads and
gives it to the opposition. Now, two of the three
tries the other night were caused by that that the
ball was passed out to the back line of Argentina
and they scored. Look, for God's sake, there's a word
called box kick. Well, it's too isn't it. It shouldn't

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be even in the English dictionary. We should never use it,
for God's sake, That's all I've got to say, Marc.

Speaker 3 (26:36):
Siri, what are you going to do with these What
are you going to do with these thoughts? Really, I'm
not I haven't got a hotline with the coaches, thankfully
on what you can do with that, because they must
have thought about it.

Speaker 12 (26:51):
I'm hoping another hundred people ring you tonight and they
all say something about this word box kick. I'm sure.
I'm sure they'll agree the word possession is what it's
all about.

Speaker 3 (27:07):
Thanks Terry. I just think the game is a bit chaotic. Really,
I think probably it's just a bit chancy these days rugby.
That's my take on it. Yeah, I don't know really
what that means, but I just feel that it's anyway,
he's going to make for an exciting rugby championship with

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us down one already. I love our talkback call or
deliberately misremember the rugby player's name if they think that
they have done something bad. Whatever his name was, Colin,
it's Marcus.

Speaker 4 (27:43):
Welcome, good evening, Do anything Marcus Lively debate tonight.

Speaker 13 (27:48):
That's cool.

Speaker 5 (27:50):
Everybody's going on about there's so many of them mentioned that.
You know, it went on for four days and ten
to concentrate him on. You know, I played a lot
of golf off the SA Candy Kappa eighteen holes, eighteen holes,

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and you know that sort of competition is bread. They
don't forget that. People can't her old happened one day.
That wasn't one race. Not only do you have to
go out and compete at the Olympics standards, you know,
the best standing begins the best in the world and
would be the best in that event for that particular race.

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You've then got to turn around sometimes in the later
in the same day do it again at the same
high level if siland was before. So, you know, horses
for courses. I mean, every every gold medal winner out
there deserves, you know, our congratulations and accolades and love
and everything else. But you know, I mean Lydia is

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absolutely fantastic. Always loved her. I thought she's a grain
as a kid, and you know she developed into a
wonderful wine and you know she just subferb athleet. She
deserves everything she gets. But you know, don't forget the
likes of me. Sure those well, but you know it
doesn't all happen over one day.

Speaker 3 (29:13):
Thanks Colin, fifteen away from nine o'clock. Keep your calls
coming through eight hundred and eighty ten eighty nineteen nine. Yeah,
really shaky ground to discuss the which medal is more difficult,
which medals more valid? But I think too, in the
hype and the build up to the games, we talk
about you know, the star and the darling of the
team and all these sorts of things. And yeah, and

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I think some people might be overlooked in some of that.
I think we do play favorites sometimes. Yeah, And it's
probably important to have a discussion afterwards to see how
we go with that. I think, particularly the Damehood things
quite you know. I don't know. Maybe Lyddy co has
been offered and said she doesn't want it, but she
seems to be incredibly, very gracious and patriotic with victory.

(30:00):
And it was four days, four long days, but I
think we all agree that it was there was a
huge mistake for Breaking to be there. And by the way,
the interesting thing about Breaking, it wasn't the breaking community
that wanted Breaking to be there. It was the dance community,
the World Dance Federation. They got turned back with ballroom dancing,

(30:21):
so they co opted Breaking and tried to get in
that way to get dance into the Olympics. Wrong thing.

Speaker 8 (30:29):
I mean.

Speaker 3 (30:29):
I saw the dance off between Japan and Canada for
the final and it looked contrived. Yeah, I don't think
the sport is great or the I don't think the
culture is greater because of that. All together, Now, Terry
was right, can't play I won the game of rugby
without the ball. I'm with Terry. After two of those

(30:51):
ridiculous kicks giving away position, I went back to the Olympics.
I guess they're just playing out the game plan. Hamish
and the Yank refused to shake hands and share the
golden door or die attitude. What legends and that high

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jump of ends a total blue ribbon event targeted by
all the major wealthy and wealth funded nations, and our
first ever gold in a field event for a man
may never happen again for little old r Is Ellen,
King of Hawick, you and the King of Howick spects
you listen. Someone's lamenting the fact that India didn't get

(31:42):
many medals and wants cricket to be included. Cricket is
included next time the twenty twenty. But yeah, I think
if you're a country of one point two billion people
you're not getting medals, there's probably other challenges. What happened
to the male cyclist team at the Olympics? Did they
not qualify? Yeah? I was surprised. I was thinking about

(32:04):
that today. I said, where were they? We used to
be a big gum. Used to be a big deal,
isn't it, Yea Allison, it's Marcus good Evening the.

Speaker 14 (32:20):
Dorkins used to be in that cycle. He was wonderful.
But since he's returned.

Speaker 3 (32:26):
Down our way, I think him on the Bella doone great,
wasn't he?

Speaker 14 (32:30):
I'm just going to say wonderful athletes. Also, I thought
the reporters on TV one we did a marvelous job.
The way they interviewed all the families that you brothers
and sisters and the parents of the and you got
to know the people through those stories. I thought that
was fantastic. Particularly the cycling girl Andrews. Her father was
her coach. Marvelous had to see their reactions and my

(32:51):
favorite change every day. But I must say Lydia Coe,
the concentration she had. She was ahead and then she
was only got in the water and she was only
forehead and she was so focused. And after she she
went around and signed all those people's caps and tops
and everything, and she was so lovely after it all.

Speaker 3 (33:08):
Just thought she was there was one precocious kids, he's
give us your hair. Well he should have been removed and.

Speaker 15 (33:13):
Said that he should have been dubbed.

Speaker 3 (33:15):
That was just disrespectful.

Speaker 14 (33:16):
It wasn't It was ridiculous looking.

Speaker 3 (33:19):
For sure, Yeah, I thought, we give us your hat cheap.

Speaker 14 (33:25):
Everyone else was good years. But she and also the shop.
Actually one thing, I must say, the one thing that
the and the throwing the Amy Fisher. I think they
should really give her the bond the medal because it
was so close that it was really a dead heat
on that one. They would give her brand medal. I
think that would be really nice. Would have an extra one.
There would be twenty one then, wouldn't we ye?

Speaker 3 (33:49):
Now, what was I going to say on the back
of you? It must be a thing because the woman
before who signed all the balls to give to the
guy that came around with a score, I think I
think there must be a thing you signed balls and
give him away.

Speaker 14 (34:01):
Probably, but she but she did sign an awful by
a lot of cats afterwards, and then men were coming
up in shirts and everything. She was really gracious, and
she'd be tired of the stage. You know, she'd all
there days, isn't that you know? Concentration wise, you got
to be so focused. And now he called her a
really good American. She wasn't that far behind her. When
you hear that name, you alarm bells ring, because she's

(34:23):
a very good golfer. Behind you're coming, you know.

Speaker 3 (34:27):
I think she's the number one too. But you know,
it's just as any hole you could just go for.
You could get ambitious and go and try and get
a booty when you can't.

Speaker 14 (34:38):
Lucky, it's agree, but lucky the ones behind her weren't
weren't catching They were going back, that was the thing,
she was saying, there and getting a few whatever, So
they weren't catching it there. That was a good thing
about the whole thing. I was pleased about that.

Speaker 3 (34:51):
Yeah, well, what you mean because I was wondering that myself, allis.
And when she finished, she knew she'd won. She didn't
have to sit in the in the sit awkwardly in
the clubroom and drink her water and look at the TV.
That was a nice but otherwise that would have been
that we went back.

Speaker 14 (35:07):
When you went back those too, she knew that the
next one, she your next hole, she'll probably be able
to boody that one. In her mind, she knew she'd
be able to catch up regain that one that she
lost there. So she's thinking ahead all the time. You've
got to think such a lot, you know, the all
right men saying oh no, not much to it. But
there was a lot of thinking about that.

Speaker 3 (35:24):
That was ridiculous to say that.

Speaker 14 (35:27):
I mean, that's one I disagree with that completely.

Speaker 3 (35:30):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, I'd always likely, but it's always getting
to a fight comparing one sport to the other. Really,
that's what you want on talk bag? Yeah, wow, didn't
see any of the de Kathleen missed the presumements, missed
that totally, did not see a second of it.

Speaker 8 (35:49):
I don't know.

Speaker 3 (35:49):
I normally quite like that because it normally, yeah, unlikely
kind of a sport, Mike. It's Marcus, welcome, good evening.

Speaker 16 (36:02):
Oh evening, Mark, real special game for my family. My
oldest brother's granddaughter competed in the in the sprint on
the bikes. Oh wow, well yeah, Rebecca pitch she was.

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She was in the Tree Lady sprint.

Speaker 3 (36:26):
Oh fantastic.

Speaker 13 (36:28):
Yeah.

Speaker 16 (36:28):
Yeah, they have one silver and then her teammate went
on to win two more golds.

Speaker 3 (36:35):
What is the story? What is the story there?

Speaker 17 (36:37):
Mike?

Speaker 3 (36:37):
Did were they who got them all? In dicycling? Because
we seem to be particularly good at the moment.

Speaker 8 (36:41):
Don't we.

Speaker 16 (36:43):
Oh? She she come from a BMX backer. She don
bex since then, since since a youngster. And she went
to the Commonwealth and the BMX and they have a
crash in the semi finals and she has approached the

(37:05):
approach bot it girls in room. So she came editory.
It's just so unbelievable that the amount of pride you feel. It. Yeah,
it's unexplainable really, And how old is she?

Speaker 3 (37:22):
She's still good to go for a bit more?

Speaker 16 (37:23):
Is she? She's did age come up? Was twenty six?
Shears old to the three. So I'm not sure they
haven't heard whether she's going to try again or yeah.

Speaker 3 (37:36):
Oh, she was in the semi finals in the BMX
at Tokyo, so.

Speaker 16 (37:41):
That's yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, she had had a crash,
but but she jumped back on the block and finished
the race before she qualified. And yeah that that she
was so injured. Yeah, it just didn't work.

Speaker 3 (37:58):
Oh, so she's come she's got a gold at Birmingham
and she's come home with a silver at Paris as well.

Speaker 4 (38:05):
Yeah yeah, oh.

Speaker 3 (38:07):
Nice to hear from you, Mike, Thank you for that.
Let's go out of No, she's for the BMX. Come
from that background. That makes a lot of sense. I'll
read the texts people. Nine oh seven seven past night.
My name is Marcus. Welcome, oh eight hundred and eighty
ten eighty Marcus enjoyed watching the Olympics. That was so
great seeing the women do especially amazing, especially Sir Carrington.

(38:27):
Also looking forward to watching the Paralympics starting on twenty
out of August. That's from Jenny. Marcus van Hoolatt was
a speed climbing young folks were like Spider Man, unreal bears.
Marcus hard coming forth, but really wanted to see eric
a fere where they're getting one for swimming. As for
cycling the velodrome, Auckland should put one on Avondale Racecourse
grounds has the population and we'll get kids cycling off

(38:51):
the Auckland roads. I think kids have every right to
cycle the road because they want to get where they
need to go. That's basically what Viking's about. But yeah,
I'm hearing you. So Shane Walker hasn't got a great velodrome.
It's kind of crazy. Really sort it out, Auckland Mayor Marcus.
A day before the Olympics, I said to my mate,

(39:12):
I don't think twenty twenty four week could do better
than the Tokyo Olympics, which our best ever. I bet
him a yard glass.

Speaker 6 (39:18):
Lol.

Speaker 3 (39:18):
I'm gonna honor that. A YARDI for me this Saturday.
At least I didn't bet my underwear. Well done. Team
ends ed? Who does the yardy Marcus. One of the
great sites the Olympics for me was seeing Lydia co
in the black uniform were the silver fern when she played?
That's from Chris. I'm hearing you, Chris. Let's face it.

(39:40):
I've never been involved in sport for obvious reasons. I'm
not very good at it. But it just does seem
to be not that straightforward to negotiate through it. You
might not get on with the coaches, you might not
get selected, you might have a falling out, you know.
I'm sure probably the training and the performing is just
a minor bit of all of it. There's a lot

(40:01):
of other stuff you've got to do. I'm sure a
lot of great athletes fall by the waysides because I
haven't got the EPI for that stuff where it wheezed
them down. Fundraising goodness anyway. Oh eight hundred eighty ten
eighty and nine two de text Marcus till twelve.

Speaker 18 (40:19):
Hello John, Oh Marcus, second time caller.

Speaker 3 (40:24):
Oh nice to hear from you, John again. Always good
to get a repeat a repeat offender.

Speaker 18 (40:30):
Yeah, oh my god, yeah you did right. I let's
talk about that. Those girls that were climbing that bloody wall.
Oh my god, I never seen anything like it. There
was one girl very special. SHAKEU move like a spider?

Speaker 3 (40:48):
What everybody because some but you had to leap some
but you could. There was no way you could actually
think you way through it. You just had to make
a dive for a day.

Speaker 18 (40:58):
Yeah, well I was watching her, you know I was
because the heads facing forward, and you know when her
hands are right there but her feet, they knew exactly
what they were doing from her arms. Yeah, it's amazed.

Speaker 3 (41:17):
Is this on the short one? Is this where you
go for the point to this when you go right to.

Speaker 18 (41:21):
The top, right to the type and touch the pad?

Speaker 3 (41:24):
Got about six seconds?

Speaker 18 (41:26):
A wow, she was so fast she would have got
a gold.

Speaker 3 (41:32):
But what did she slip or did she get it?

Speaker 18 (41:36):
No? No, she's every time they really focused on her
because she was so good at it. She was like
two seconds ahead of everyone else. Yep, amazing.

Speaker 12 (41:49):
I don't know who she was.

Speaker 18 (41:50):
What do your callers might know who she was? Amazing.

Speaker 3 (41:54):
On the back of that, I guess heaps of more
people will go and do speed climb. I don't know
if it's the next year. I guess it will be
but people seem to love it.

Speaker 18 (42:02):
Yeah, yeah they were. They were good next to her,
but wow, she's stood out. Another thing. Did we have
a boxer New Zealand boxer there?

Speaker 3 (42:15):
What happened to boxing?

Speaker 18 (42:18):
I don't know. I'm not sure. You know, I've been
staying in my mate's workshop and you've been looking after me,
and I didn't ever tell you. I had the old
wireless and I've been listening to her for the last
two weeks. And and I was lucky enough to go

(42:41):
down to the local pub and I saw that girl
on my bloody How you got there? What was likely
to go there? What's the pub's body costumes?

Speaker 3 (42:55):
Oh yeah, yeah that sounds like that. It sounds like
you're ready. You sound like you're ready for it.

Speaker 18 (43:00):
Yeah yeah, it's just around the corner. And I was
lucky enough to get down there and I saw her
the only sport I saw and wow, I was like, no,
why we were like spump with that? Who was she?

Speaker 3 (43:15):
I don't know, Yeah, well watching at the pub, But
I mean, you've got to watch at the pub. That's fantastic.
Look nice to hear from you. Thank you for that.
Eight hundred and ten eighty we'll find out. It's a good.
I wonder if boxing's change now that people are going
profit well and even know where the amateur and professional?
What's happening these days with boxing? But yeah, we used

(43:37):
to get boxes going there and do quite well. And
the weightlifters, oh, we had lit Tilly, he did well.
He came peep beat, although I think the competition was
greater than last time, But yeah, get in touch by
name is Marcus, welcome, just your reactions and wash up
from the games. I thought it was a cracker. It's

(43:58):
a good. I wonder if boxing's change now that people
are going profit well and even though where the amateur
and professional? What's happening these days with boxing? But yeah,
we used to get boxes going there and do quite well.
And the weightlifters, Oh, we had Littelly he did well.
He peep beat, although I think the competition was greater

(44:19):
than last time. But yeah, get in touch by name
is Marcus, welcome, just your reactions and they wash up
from the games. I thought it was a cracker. By
the way, the two planets Mars and Venus are close.
At three o'clock in the morning, they'll look like one.
There'll be a hair breadth between them. Might be worth
getting the old telescope out for that, or the horoscope

(44:39):
or whatever it's called. That's at three o'clock in the morning,
between three and sunrise. If you like something dramatic in
the heave any bodies, that's shit. Tomorrow morning is your day,
first time, best time for a long long time. You
want to be a part of that. And who is

(45:00):
your medal of the Olympics. Who was the one you thought, Wow,
that's something really is something special. You might have one
of those thought. Both marathons look steep. The marathon's goodness, Boy,
did the commandes go on about the hills a lot. Boy,
they went on about it, but they were quite steep.

(45:21):
I don't know why they made them steep up around
Montmartha or something like that. Can't quite work out what
was going on there, but pretty amazing that the marathon
has only been there since nineteen eighty four. They didn't
used to let women run the marathon. They thought they
would get too hot, which does sound laughable now, doesn't it,

(45:44):
Because actually all of them look quite All of them
looked like they were actually incredibly hot, like ice pecks
and wearing those silly headbands that cool you down. So
I just think you run forty two k's, you are
going to get hot. So yes, there we go. Oh
eight hundred and eighty Teddy, my name is Marcus Welk.

(46:06):
Anything about that love to hear from your take of
the and what was your metal? What was the moment
for you? For me, the moment was de Co winning
that golf and even it was even nerve wrecking watching
it knowing the result. I've become too cowardy to watch
live sport a lot of the time because it's just
too yeah, you know, you know what I mean. It's

(46:28):
it's too close so oh, because there aren't many There
aren't many times in your life you can now see
someone's dream shattered live in your living room, Like the
worst moment of someone's life is when they miss out
on whatever. You know, it's pretty it's pretty confronting to watch.

(46:53):
But sport's so good now with all these flat screen TVs.
We get so reasonably from the warehouse, and the coverage
is so good. It's cameras everywhere, there's drones and there's goodness,
gracious me, there's even a cameraman backing onto the field
during one of the run racers that didn't go down
so well, Marc is still twelve. Good evening, Paul, welcome, Yeah, Marcus,

(47:14):
here are you going?

Speaker 17 (47:15):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (47:15):
Good, Paul, not bet at all thinking nice. I like
the way you asked that. I like the curiosity in
your voice about that.

Speaker 6 (47:21):
I'm going, okay, I'm pretty caring.

Speaker 19 (47:25):
Hey, I just wanted to say, Look, been listening to everything.
I don't think professional sport should be in the Olympics. Basketball, golf.
I mean, these people earn a lot of money, so

(47:47):
I think the Olympics need to be exempt from that stuff.
I mean, we're looking at kayaks and running and athletes
that have had to have sponsorship to get themselves there
from every country. But in boxing, why isn't that allowed?

Speaker 3 (48:13):
Well, but we're just not so good at it. I
think boxing is it. I think the trouble with professionalists.

Speaker 19 (48:18):
Of what it's not allowed?

Speaker 13 (48:22):
You know?

Speaker 19 (48:23):
Oh, I see, yeah, So why isn't that allowed? And
yet we have the elite golfers there. I mean Lydia
God lover and woman stuff, But we had all of
the pros there.

Speaker 3 (48:42):
Did you say God love did you say God love her?
And woman stuff?

Speaker 13 (48:47):
No?

Speaker 19 (48:48):
I just think it's great, she's she's done wonderfully well
been following her years, you know, but she's worth twenty
five million dollars. I'm talking about a sport that has
accuracy on its money. Why is it allowed? And golfers
and boxing is so no, you have to be amateur why.

Speaker 3 (49:16):
I think my understanding with the Olympics is that the
Olympics had a bit of a crisis from viewership and
from sponsorships. They needed to get the sports that people
wanted to watch. That's basketball, that's the golf, that's the
best of the best. I think it's why it's gone
that way because they needed that. And I think when
it was amateur, a lot of those countries, Eastern Bloc countries,

(49:36):
just they became soldiers full time and they funded them.
I didn't have a problem with that, But boxing's weird
because I don't even know why you've got to because
you're saying you've got to have amateur status. That's my
understanding too, right.

Speaker 19 (49:48):
Yeah, wouldn't it be great if they opened that sport
art and just said, let's see the number one heavyweights
in the world wanting to win a gold medal. Take
away the money, because clearly we haven't golf. Let them box?

Speaker 3 (50:09):
Did you did you see the basketball with the American
team USA?

Speaker 19 (50:13):
Did you see us the same there's the same thing.

Speaker 3 (50:18):
Did you see it?

Speaker 2 (50:19):
Though?

Speaker 18 (50:20):
Yeah?

Speaker 17 (50:21):
Yeah I did.

Speaker 20 (50:22):
I mean, I mean I thought it was quite I
thought it was quite special to see them all on
the same team because you've never seen them sort of,
you've never seen them having a good time together because
they've never played.

Speaker 19 (50:33):
Either, I understand. And the thing could be with with
other sports that the Olympic Committee see is is no
good And I'm seriously, I'm not into boxing that much.
But David Nicker, who who is now a professional who

(50:54):
I think want a Commonwealth YEP gold and maybe you know,
let's see these guys. They're in a sport too. And
it's not that I like it particularly, but there's a
lot you could take out for TV time. Seriously, that
breakdowncing honestly.

Speaker 3 (51:15):
Could you watch it? Did you? Because I didn't think
it was on that much. Did you watch any of it?

Speaker 6 (51:19):
No?

Speaker 19 (51:20):
I had to made that watch it and he goes, God,
that looks like us at a pub twenty eight years ago.

Speaker 3 (51:28):
Yeah, there was an Irish woman that sorry, there was
an Australian woman that wasn't really good at all, Raygun.
And people were saying you could see that outside closing time,
outside any Irish pub. But I think, to be fair
and I don't really understand the situation with Raygan. I've
tried to do a deep dive into her performance because
I can't quite work out what's gone on. I think
she must have realized the woman that she was drawn

(51:49):
against was very good and she couldn't match you with
a move, so she decided to go for originality and
came up with the kangaroo. And I mean, yeah, I
think she panicked. Performance panic, That's what I think it was. Hello, Dan,
it's Marcus.

Speaker 2 (52:06):
Welcome, Hey Marcus. Here you go man. I've been looking
forward to your show. I've been looking forward to your
show all days. And you were going to get to
compare compare medals. And I'll tell you what.

Speaker 3 (52:17):
It's so long and naughty to know because who away
to compare people's achievements.

Speaker 2 (52:23):
Well, I'll tell you what that's for me. It's linear
and daylight. Second, and I'll give you my reason why
I think that golfers. She's played four days in a row,
five hours around, so that's twenty hours of concentration and
she's in. Her total score was two hundred and seventy
three for the four days. And then golf, not one

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shot is ever the same as always, the winds blowing different,
you've got a different lie. So that's two hundred and
seventy three different situations she had to tackle and she
and she did it and she pulled it off. When
you compare that to kayaking, it's five hundred meters every
single time. So for four years you're practicing five hundred
meters or your high jump year two meters, seventy whatever

(53:07):
it was, You're doing the same thing over and over.
It's this repetition. Golf's never the same. It's every shot
is different. And you know, people there's golf courses in
every city, multiple like people golf speaking.

Speaker 3 (53:21):
Dan, you're speaking my language because all my drives around
the country, I've never chanced upon a kayak race exactly.

Speaker 2 (53:29):
You know, when do you go when do you go
down and have a social high jump on a Saturday morning?

Speaker 13 (53:37):
You know?

Speaker 2 (53:37):
And the other thing about Lydia's and.

Speaker 3 (53:42):
At least a Carriington has done extraordinarily well. She's clear
the best of your time.

Speaker 2 (53:46):
Yea yeah, and with the golf as well. You say,
Lydia has done three Olympic cycles, so she's basically her
whole career is so golf's usually determined on majors. We've
got four majors a year. So if she's been eleven
eleven years, four majors a year, that's forty four times
chants at a major, whereas at the Olympics, she's only

(54:08):
had three chances at the Olympics in her whole career
and she's middled every single time. That's just she's in
my opinion, she's the New Zealand's best ever athlete in
any sport.

Speaker 3 (54:21):
I agree. I agree, And she's also the best in
the land's best ever athlete in any sport on the
grounds that she has become the best at a sport
that has played professionally or competitively, because everyone that plays
golfer is competitive, exactly. There's more, there's more women golfers

(54:43):
in the world than any other sport we're involved with,
whether it be rugby or anything.

Speaker 2 (54:48):
It's true, exactly, and I tell you everyone, I mean golf.
There's hundreds of thousands of people in each country that
play golf. And I'll tell you what if anyone, you know,
everyone dreams if they were good enough that they'd want
to be a pro. Like, that's just as as good
as it gets. So she's conquered a sport that millions
and millions people play, and in her career she's had

(55:09):
three chances and she's hit the jackpot every single time.

Speaker 3 (55:14):
It's also the people. People are always at driving rains
to improve and ranges to improve. They're always part assistance things.
They're going to those new kind of places you go
to at night and virtual golf. It's kind of it's
a big industry. It's worth billions.

Speaker 2 (55:32):
Exactly. She she won't the twenty five million, is sure
by the time she finishes career, Nights Letter, and by
the time she finishes her career, she's going to be
She's just I don't know how, don't serve Bob Chale
complete legend, but one one major yeah, out of probably
forty attempts, whereas Lydia's three, you know, gold, silver, bronze,

(55:56):
the full set at three attempts. It's just it's, you know,
she's she's just insane, just so proud of it's so
proud to see her in that Black on the Sunday.

Speaker 3 (56:06):
Unbelievable because it really meant something too. And I don't
was there. Would she be provided with a golf uniform?
Is that the way you know how they got the
New Zealand uniform? Would they give her that?

Speaker 2 (56:19):
I reckon, I guarantee you she would have paid her.
You know, she wouldn't. She would have ever completely disagree
with the last call. And the two best spectacles and
the whole of the Olympics for me was the basketball
and the golf, and that's because the top dogs were there.

Speaker 3 (56:33):
Yeah, I just couldn't believe. I couldn't believe. I couldn't
believe how good Stiff Curry was. But I really couldn't
believe how good Kevin Durant was. He was unbelievable.

Speaker 2 (56:46):
Durant was, Maan, did you see that three that Curry
heaved up that last He was falling over and it
didn't even hit the run like He's just I couldn't believe.

Speaker 3 (56:56):
And we and Yama cried at the inter fair enough
because he's just a young guy. And but he was
terrible from that. They were terrible from the free throw
free throw, and he wasn't good with three.

Speaker 2 (57:06):
One is either no exactly they lost by what do
they lose by six or eight or something? And they
missed at least ten three throws in that game. It
was on there as well, but Stephen Lebron because they're
from the two of the big clubs, Golden State and
Lebron's been everywhere, but they've always wanted to play together
and not just an also game, and now they've finally
done it, and it was like, you just see, like

(57:28):
how much it doesn't matter if they're professionally got millions
of dollars, guarantee you that means more to him than
any of it championship or anything like that.

Speaker 3 (57:35):
Earth And what I liked also was because I watched
basketball a little bit, and you know they're coaches, because
they stayed on the side you recognize them. It seemed
as though three or the four of the coaches from
different teams were all supporting the main guy. So I
quite like that as well, that they just kind of thought, well,
you know, the coaches want to kind of be on
the same team as well, and they seemed to be

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getting on well together too, which was I thought it
was quite nice for them as well.

Speaker 2 (57:59):
They had Steve Kerr from Golden State. They had Eric
Spolster from Miami, and then they had the coach. Well, yeah,
you're right, all three of them just having a good
laugh together.

Speaker 3 (58:12):
Oh look, Dan, you summed up for me and I
just love the way you said good night's sweetheart, because
you've got stuff to talk about and that was important.
Nice to hear from you. The number is eight hundred
and eighty ten eighty nine nine du de dext and
during then through the other people have to sport done.
What sport does. It's nice not to talk about what
we're wrong with the all Blacks, but just yeah, no
one's talking about what we're wrong with any sport. It's

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just well, we won so many. I quite like about it.
It's always, you know, we're actually here discussing which is
the best. It's such an extraordinary and I'll tell you what,
quite often when I'm at work, I switched through the
channels and they've got an Olympic channel which is on,
you know, every day of the year. Now it's always
sorts a bit of an overcooll, but there's a lot

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of events I'm looking forward to going back to watch
that I missed out on. I don't quite know what
they are. It didn't see much of the weightlifting, which
I kind of like, like the pocket rockets. But yeah,
a lot of stuff I'm looking forward to. Didn't see
as much of the football as I wanted. Anyway, Get
in touch Marcus till twelve, Ricky good evening.

Speaker 6 (59:14):
The game makers are good things.

Speaker 3 (59:16):
Ricky.

Speaker 21 (59:18):
Is that Lydia co she if you look at it
the way the boxers look at it, I would go
as far to say that she would be the best
pound for pound golfer the game has ever seen, because
you obviously can't compare her to the men because they're

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obviously that would be like comparing Floyd May whether they're
one of the Clitchko brothers or something. You can't compare there.
But if you if you look at it like they
do it, pound for pound, her statistics would she would
say that she's the best golfer that has ever paid
the game.

Speaker 3 (59:58):
Well, what was the difference between the means of the
women's How does the difference in golf means in women's
golf course work at the Olympics?

Speaker 21 (01:00:03):
Do you know, Well, obviously the men can head it
a lot further.

Speaker 8 (01:00:09):
Yeah, but.

Speaker 21 (01:00:11):
So the difference in the golf courses, that is where
they key off so that the men play a game.
Is it much longer, don't give you exactly? Yeah, quite
a bit longer. Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, So their part
fives will be like closer to five hundred meters longer
as the woman's part fives to be will be more

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like four hundred meters long. Okay, so yeah, but amazing
what she has achieved, John Marcus, Welcome.

Speaker 17 (01:00:43):
Marcus, good evening.

Speaker 16 (01:00:45):
Focus.

Speaker 17 (01:00:46):
The bit that I really love about Lilia and is
much overlooked, is what she does on the world stage
as an investor, not just for the game of golf,
but for New Zealand. You know, you see her getting
presented on those majors and winning the world titles and

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the chairmans of huge corporations go our dear friend Lydia
Cove from New Zealand. You know, she doesn't just play golf. Well,
she represents New Zealand beautifully. She is so gracious.

Speaker 3 (01:01:24):
Yeah, and obviously it means something to her, doesn't it. Well, well,
I think because I'm sure golfers wouldn't be bothered going
to the Olympics. Then when it gets for her, well.

Speaker 17 (01:01:34):
That's part of the market. But you know, when you
think about Joanah Lomu and Anacordakova, who were sort of
the the ambassadors for Addidak in their days, we in
New Zealand actually didn't really appreciate what that meant until
you went overseas and Joanah was.

Speaker 7 (01:01:54):
Like someone would walk on water.

Speaker 17 (01:01:57):
And you know, I don't think as Kiwi's we we
actually appreciate the magnitude of the contribution that they make.
And you know, I put Lydia there not just to
this sport on their vests, for New Zealand on the

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world stage. Yeah, I agree, you know, I think she's magnificent.

Speaker 3 (01:02:24):
Nice to hear for you, John, thank you for the
high Conrad. It's Marcus welcome.

Speaker 15 (01:02:29):
Yeah, hi Marcus. All the middles have been awesome, and
the Carrington as well. I just want to make a
point about Lydia co the impression. You know, she's so
emotional about the I mean, she could have just had
another tournament or whatever else, but I mean her she
heads into representing the country. I mean, if she wins
a million dollar tournament, obviously it's just mercenary behavior. She's

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just representing herself. But in this you look at the
emotion where she's talked to the media the whole time,
the last five days, she represents she knows she's representing us,
and that's just so awesome. I mean the same with Jocovic.
I mean, Jocovic the other day came out and it
was so awesome while he said, this is my greatest
partle ever and he just gave it to all these

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US journalists that were there. And I mean to put
into a sect of what co achieved. Imagine if we
had a Kiwi guy, let's say Michael Venus be jobed of.
It's in that final. You never hear the end of it,
and he's on media never.

Speaker 3 (01:03:24):
And I appreciate. Look, I don't, I don't. I don't
know how the money works at the Olympics. I presume
Lydia Coe would get some appearance fee, I don't know how,
and I presume the American basketball team would get something,
probably more so from the sponsors that be how it works.

Speaker 15 (01:03:40):
Yeah, yeah, that's right now. Now the other point to
make you brought up a great point about the Olympics
about forty years ago. I'd love the IOC to reveal
what the viewing figures were for that US versus France
means basketball finals versus like in an America or NBC
whatever versus say some archery final or you know, some
judo final or something else. Yeah, but the IOC will

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ever released those figures. That's why they introduced basketball in
ninety two. Or soccer. I mean they had soccer introduced.

Speaker 3 (01:04:13):
Because it was because I mean, I think the Olympics
were sort of dying because televised sport became so big
with the NBA and the EPL and things like that.
They needed something to get people to want. Well, Paris
has certainly done that were the last Well Rio was
no good because it was no one turned up, the
tickets were too expensive. Tokyo was there was thanks in

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and out for good on you. Well, like the way
I just went there, They got on you. Marcus. My
sister who lives in New York said you watched lidily
from start to finish. Your rang me and said she
was the most amazing ambastor for New Zealand. She was
just so proud of her. Marcus. Could New Zealand's Olympic
success turn into a bump and tourism? Yeah, I reckon

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it probably well. I mean, I don't know if people
can see how successful Lydia Coe was and realized that
a lot of that success was the fact that she
came news in them because of I presume our ease
of getting to great golf courses. I don't know how
golf tourism is these days. I know you've got those

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kind of upmarket golf courses that brings people out here
Cape Kidnappers, and you're doing at Mattai Bay. You might
have to say something about that. I don't know about.

(01:05:40):
I don't know. Yeah, I don't know. I'll tell you.
I'll tell you who I would have done well for,
and that'll be Paris. I reckon they're going to have
an amaze. Well, I don't think they struggle with tourism anyway,
do they? Of course with Emily and Paris starting on Wednesday,
But I don't think they struggle with getting people there.

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What about that bell they rang and that goes into
the Notre Dame Cathedral. Wasn't quite sure. It seems like
a long time ago that the Sevens won the won
that medal, doesn't it a long time ago? They're all
back and done. Every school in Southland, which has been

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incredibly generous thing to show everyone the medals and that's
been hugely received. Marcus, the Australian breakdancer, tried to do
a comedic interpretation of the dance. It was cringe the
breakdance up the Olympics of the USA. No, that was
a fail. Good evening. Marcus just liked to give a

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shout out to whoever designed our Olympic team uniforms. The
track suits and competitive gear looked really stylish but refunctional,
better than the other teams I saw this year. They
especially were Gold Medy worthy themselves. Hope other people like
them too, and just made us look a little bit

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more special. Thanks for that. Thirteen away from ten o'clock
Garriot's Marcus good evening.

Speaker 4 (01:07:25):
Yes, good evening. Marcus put that ring up before in
saying about it's only five hundred meters in the rowing.
What would he have said ab how that lady had
won the sprint in nine queens something second.

Speaker 3 (01:07:46):
I don't know.

Speaker 4 (01:07:48):
What you two minutes a door but that was only
nine second rate. I think it's actually quite a woman rude.
How people have yeah and played Lisa Carrington's I don't
think I.

Speaker 3 (01:08:00):
Don't think that one's mentioned Lisa character per se. I
think what people are talking about is how extraordinary lydio
cod lydia.

Speaker 4 (01:08:07):
Comparing it to the fi hundred meters rowing. He said,
it's only five hundred meters, whereas Lily at codes he
was walking around for three days, but three days.

Speaker 3 (01:08:22):
Get Gary time and in three days market I think
they said four days for four days.

Speaker 4 (01:08:30):
How much of that time was actually spent playing golf?

Speaker 3 (01:08:35):
Oh, I don't know.

Speaker 4 (01:08:36):
I'm actually hitting the ball and playing goal, So you
could say all sorts of things.

Speaker 3 (01:08:40):
What she's done, get Gary and I think what's interesting
is the discussion, but you need to take the take
the tench dow. I think people just talking about about
which which medals are, you know, and it's just it's
just an interesting exercise because we'll be coming up to
the Halburgs before too long, and when they have things
like the Halburgs, you have got to compare one achievement

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against the other. She was very very difficult, isn't it.

Speaker 17 (01:09:07):
Yeah?

Speaker 4 (01:09:07):
Well, you know, I mean I've been a tool Bobby
syndrome going will about Lisa character actually because there's been
people going on about, oh she shouldn't been named the dame.
What she's saying sport and things like that.

Speaker 3 (01:09:19):
Hang on, Gary, who said that.

Speaker 4 (01:09:22):
This is earlier on today and earlier talk backed.

Speaker 3 (01:09:25):
I haven't heard any of that, so I'm not across that.
But thanks Gary. Phillip's Marcus welcome, good evening.

Speaker 7 (01:09:32):
MICUs something on the Olympics in general. But first, yeah,
the Aussie competitor. You know, they have the Masters Games
every now and then. I think if that performance if
we had at thirty six years older, I think if
she ever didn't have any real you know, I think
Olympic quality talent, I think it's it's probably gone. But

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you know, I think if we saw that performance at
the Master's Games, it might have been seen more, you know,
and it's in its place there, you know, because you
get it's a very amateur event. You get all sorts,
you know, and it's a fun thing. You get some
incredibly talented people and also just some people who are
along for the fun. And anyway, now that the Olympics,

(01:10:17):
you know how a lot of people saying, look, certain
sports don't belong there, break dancing doesn't belong there, the
kind of thing. And you also hear a lot of
people saying that they because it's so difficult for cities
to make a profit out of the Olympics, they kind
of need to hold it for multiple years. I think
the best idea is these kind of fringe sports like

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the break dancing, the freestyle BMX, all that kind of stuff.
I think they need to have that in their own
kind of Olympic X Games, and they could probably have
that the following years. So this, you know, twenty twenty four,
they have the Summer Olympics with all the regular track
and field and you know, strengths and durance events, and
then the following year in the same city they have

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you know that I guess, beach volleyball, break dancing. They
could even have some street art, street performance type type
events and that kind of thing. So it gives us,
it gives that city a second go at the financial profits,
and I think it gives probably both events more credibility.

(01:11:23):
I think I think you get the right kind of
event if you know, you call it x Olympic X
Games or something like that. I think that would be
a better event all those types of sports because you
get the people along who know what they're expecting. No
one's going to be saying, oh, this doesn't belong here
because it's you know, it's going to attract that kind
of that kind of crowd, and you know, it'll mean

(01:11:46):
that the existing you know what we call it in
those traditional Olympics will will kind of maintain it's it's
appeal and credibility. So I think it's I think it
would be a win win if they if they did that.

Speaker 3 (01:12:00):
It's funny because as as you mentioned it, thinking about
the performance BMG sing, the trick beer mixing, in the
trick skateboarding, it didn't have any of the spectacle or
showmanship of those events in the X Games, which are
always extraordinary. It kind of they took a sport that
had been really great in the X Games and completely

(01:12:22):
took all the life and soul out of it. In
the midday sun, it just it just looked terrible and
it was you know, it was just there was no
there was no music, there was no it was just
it was dead.

Speaker 7 (01:12:34):
I mean I didn't really watch much of that, but
any but you know, I caught the highlights and yeah
that there seemed to be.

Speaker 19 (01:12:42):
A bit of.

Speaker 7 (01:12:43):
Almost a Wimbledon crowd watching a you know, the wrong
crowd was there. You know, they all looked bored as
and absolutely wrong about the whole thing.

Speaker 3 (01:12:57):
There must be something. The weird thing was the French
seemed to love the climbing, and the French loved the
modern pentathlon because that was done the Horsey Arena and
that was a so yeah, when the crowd are into it,
the sport comes alive. Because the climbing was really exciting
and the French competitors were there as well.

Speaker 7 (01:13:17):
That speed climbing is one of my favorite events. Just
that that the irengue about that the other night actually,
and you know that is one of the most impressive
things I've ever seen, is how fast those guys and
girls go up the water. It's just blas my mind.

Speaker 3 (01:13:32):
And also to its a sport that's accessible to everyone.
We've got a climbing wall down here and we've taken
the kids, you know, because the kids are into it
and they like it, so it's something that's available for
everyone as well. You don't need a golf course or
a lake. You can just go and do it. And
I reckon the numbers will be through the roof because
people love that.

Speaker 15 (01:13:50):
Hmm.

Speaker 3 (01:13:50):
It's like and in Los Angeles. They're going to have
an injure warrior type thing which is going to be
exciting as well. What's that replacing Dan? What's that instead
of Yeah, they got rid of their crestrian horse riding
in the modern Pentathlon. Are they're going to have that instead?

Speaker 13 (01:14:11):
Well?

Speaker 3 (01:14:12):
Kids love that, kids love it.

Speaker 7 (01:14:13):
I'm not going to miss the horses, but.

Speaker 3 (01:14:16):
Oh well, the horse. The horses be the most boring
thing of the It's terrible.

Speaker 7 (01:14:22):
Either into it and you're and you're mad or you're not.

Speaker 3 (01:14:26):
But no one wants to be aligned with the horsey
set to they because that's that's got all sorts of connotations.
You don't want to go there. Thank you, thank you,
thank you. Just a heads up people, The Aurora is on.
People in the South Island are seeing it from Mortarchy,
Albert Town, Ross, not ross from Friends, but ross from

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the West coast, from the Porthills, christ Church. Quite a
bit of color, some with a naked eye, some with filters.
But yeah, if you're into the Aurora, it's as strong
as it's the best one that's been since May. If
you go to Aurora Australis New Zealand on the Facebook
page and you can get onto that you can see

(01:15:08):
where all the shots are being posted. Birdling's flat coming
mos guele tairy planes. So yeah, she's happening. It's on
good evening, Richard, It's Marcus welcome.

Speaker 4 (01:15:26):
Just my luck.

Speaker 6 (01:15:27):
I was in Ross to day.

Speaker 3 (01:15:29):
Is much happening in Ross.

Speaker 6 (01:15:32):
I have family connections. And when you go to the
beach in Roth, it's like black, you almost see you
can almost see the gold and that's in your kna.

Speaker 3 (01:15:44):
And I think the whole of the whole of Ross
was dug up for gold once, wasn't I've heard.

Speaker 4 (01:15:48):
Stories about.

Speaker 3 (01:15:54):
The Old coast a yep.

Speaker 6 (01:15:56):
Yeah, that's not what you want to rung up with.
The one look I was I've been listening for an
hour and I heard.

Speaker 7 (01:16:02):
The sky rang up.

Speaker 6 (01:16:03):
And he goes on looking still in that but he
kind of almost played down the shot put because you
have you thrown the shot and lets it. But that's
what the onetics is about. That the best human you know,
human beings who can perform each sport. And it's just yeah,

(01:16:29):
I don't think Gary was being negative. I think he
had a point.

Speaker 3 (01:16:38):
Yeah, like this, there's some there's something that there's something
about some of us that are not physically strong or quick.
And I think some of us I haven't finished, Richard,
Some of us see golf has been an extraordinary sport
because it seems as though one of those sports that

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just through share, perseverance and baptists, you can rise to
the top. Am I right there?

Speaker 6 (01:17:07):
Do you not think that the guy I watched, yeah,
the documentary on the guy who the New Zealand dude,
I don't know his name. We're not really a spotty guy,
but yeah, he the amount of effort that he's put
in to throwing the shot put, I found that I
sound quite Oh there's Jacko girl the New Zealand.

Speaker 3 (01:17:30):
Oh, there's two of the two of them. There, there's
the guy Tom, there's the guy from Tim and Tom
and Jacko.

Speaker 6 (01:17:36):
I was watching them and years and years and years
training for the one throw. Yeah, that guy who was
talking in the last down, sure everybody's got their view
kind of said along the lines of, you know, and
he just throws the one shot and that fit all

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hang on, isn't it? It's woman man. Guy has been
spending pretty much his whole life trying to perfect the
shop put, and I think the shot put was one
of the original Olympics sports. You know, I just you know,
both guys. Everyone's got their opinion. But I don't think

(01:18:22):
Gary was wrong, That's all.

Speaker 4 (01:18:23):
I wasn't going to ring.

Speaker 3 (01:18:25):
Yeah, fear enough, Richard appreciate that. I think probably people
more critical of his tone. He came and kind of
hot and bothered, and I thought was more of a discussion,
like you have, who should get the Hallburg, which was
the medal was the most difficult to get, which the
meddles the most significant? And I think we can do
that without the ad hominem a text. But yeah, appreciate it, Richard,
Thank you, Neil Marcus welcome.

Speaker 13 (01:18:48):
Well, hello Marcus, and I hope you and yours are
all well, Yes, thank you, sir. Breakdown thing now, it
was absolutely Robert.

Speaker 3 (01:19:02):
I think they call it. I think they call it breaking.
Well whatever, you know, that's the name for it. But
are you breaking?

Speaker 13 (01:19:10):
But yes, yeah, yeah, yeah, well it was terrible. I mean,
I mean it was awful. But isn't there a part
of your Marcus thinks the world's a richer place for
things like that. I mean, look at Eddie the Eagle.

(01:19:32):
I mean he was tripe happy, he was dreadful, but
he had millions following him. And those people that scored
nothing in the Eurovision Song Contest, they had concerts and
it was they were packed out. It was so bad.
So you're writing what you said. But I think without

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incidents or situations like that, the world would be a
poorer place.

Speaker 8 (01:20:02):
I really do.

Speaker 3 (01:20:06):
I think people that enjoy someone that's not very good
at it because it gives everyone hope.

Speaker 13 (01:20:11):
Do you know you might have a point.

Speaker 6 (01:20:14):
You think.

Speaker 3 (01:20:16):
The thing about the Australian woman, it's more complicated than
that is because in some ways she I mean, I
don't think the breaking people or the break dancing people
probably wanted their form of dance in the Olympics, but
it was the Dance Federation people that got in there
because they couldn't have ballroom dancing. Okay, well there's our foot.

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And then a woman from Australia came along and she
ridiculed it because she made it look she made it
look like something out of Kath and Kim laugh Neil
she did. And then when she did that, she lay
on the gun sideways and sort of decide being her

(01:20:56):
knees to it. It was, honestly, and the interesting thing
that people imitated instantly and could do it as well
as she could do it.

Speaker 13 (01:21:05):
Yeah, yeah, so that's IMTI and I'm buggered. But even
I could maybe do that.

Speaker 4 (01:21:13):
It gives us all hope.

Speaker 3 (01:21:18):
You should do it, Neil, you should take up breaking.

Speaker 13 (01:21:22):
Well. I'm in the scooter rouse the club, the club
with the with the mobility scooters.

Speaker 3 (01:21:34):
You know what city are you?

Speaker 13 (01:21:36):
And Neil, why do your Martha.

Speaker 3 (01:21:39):
Oh, I think I've asked it before, Neil, go you
thank you. Nice to hear from you. The scooter oos.
I know for swimming. There was always problems with swimming,
wasn't there. There's always problems with the coach. You got
the straining coach across that didn't work out so well.
By the way, good news for people into the railways.
The Terry Gorge is going to start running trains back

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again to puk a Angi, starting not October, twice a
week through summer on the Tady Gorge railway that had
been kind of mothballed a bit after COVID. He said
his greatest railway trip up the Gorge, no doubt about

(01:22:24):
that whatsoever. She's a ripper a longish day, but they'll
make it worth you while Hi, Tony, it's Marcus. Thanks
for calling and good evening.

Speaker 13 (01:22:36):
I was just wondering, like the tab they have betting
on everything, did they have betting on the events at
the games?

Speaker 3 (01:22:47):
I'll tell you all I know. Okay, is it someone
has emailed me someone by the name of Catherine. No,
it's not that. It's someone by the name of Yeah Catherine.
Marcus actually put five dollars only lydia co to win
with a T A B and one won seventy dollars,

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so that was fair as well. Cheers Catherine. So yeah,
they must have been betting on it.

Speaker 13 (01:23:13):
Oh well, gee, No, I was just were wondering. Did
the tav have have control over bettings on the games?

Speaker 2 (01:23:24):
I think they must do?

Speaker 13 (01:23:25):
Yeah, yeah, well, okay, thank you.

Speaker 3 (01:23:28):
I believe I'm not what if you had a punt
if you'd known?

Speaker 13 (01:23:33):
No, No, I was just wondering because that they had
so many sports going that. Yeah, how would have they
control all of the betting?

Speaker 3 (01:23:45):
You know, I don't know. I don't how to work
out the odds on that because a lot of the
field you wouldn't know much about. Oh okay, I'll find
out some more, Tony.

Speaker 8 (01:23:54):
Thank you.

Speaker 3 (01:23:55):
Jane good evening, Marcus, Welcome.

Speaker 7 (01:23:58):
Yeah, hi Marcus.

Speaker 4 (01:24:00):
I'm just.

Speaker 15 (01:24:02):
That confused.

Speaker 4 (01:24:03):
I saw the three key We girls qualified for a
high jump, and then I haven't heard anything since.

Speaker 12 (01:24:09):
What happened to.

Speaker 5 (01:24:12):
Do we know?

Speaker 3 (01:24:14):
I think three key We women got into the final
of the pole vault. Is that what you're thinking about?

Speaker 4 (01:24:19):
No, the high jumps, Eliza McCartney, that's.

Speaker 3 (01:24:23):
The pole vault. Yeah, that's the point. That's the one yet,
the pole vault. So the three of them got in,
and I think Eliza McCartney was the best performing. I
think she got sixth. Then they got some PBS and stuff,
but they didn't get the medals.

Speaker 4 (01:24:35):
Oh okay, okay. I never saw anything after qualifying.

Speaker 3 (01:24:40):
No, well, that's right. They're in the middle of some
of those feel events in the middle of the night,
so it was hard to get you know, unless she
got medals. She didn't really get the upshot of it all.

Speaker 4 (01:24:47):
Really tell me about it. I'm still recovering.

Speaker 3 (01:24:50):
Yeah, but that's it. Jan, Thank you, Alistair ats, Marcus,
good evening and welcome.

Speaker 8 (01:24:56):
Yeah, hi, tell Ustair and Nelson here. I've just finished
some cleaning at Nelson College. Thank Yeah, I've just driven
passed with this incident than Nelson. Yes, it's still blocked
off the schools during the day, Nelson Intermediate, Victory School,
Nelson College or on lockdowns. Yeah, but there's still a

(01:25:21):
high presence of police around there there. And I don't
have I say this off the record. That hasn't been
resolved yet, okay.

Speaker 3 (01:25:29):
And I think I saw report from one of the
news organizations about that from an hour ago. Yeap, okay,
thank you.

Speaker 8 (01:25:35):
And also I lead an interesting life. So there's a
big there's a big rugby game.

Speaker 2 (01:25:41):
Are you.

Speaker 3 (01:25:42):
Are you a tennis coach?

Speaker 8 (01:25:45):
Yeah, I am, actually yeah, I remember.

Speaker 3 (01:25:48):
A discussion from previously.

Speaker 8 (01:25:51):
Ian, I'll be doing it for thirty seven odd years.

Speaker 3 (01:25:53):
Of Nelson pretty good memory.

Speaker 8 (01:25:55):
A you're as shot as a razor a bit at times. Yep,
I still got it, but a balance for life a
bit more now. I do a lot for the community
down where I live in Tahona and Nelson City, so
I'm slowly trying to change this area. So yeah, there's
a big, massive rugby game. The Crusaders cut between Nelson

(01:26:19):
College and christ It's Boys High School this weekend and
it's at Nelson College at twelve o'clock there'll be a
massive crowd and there's a fierce rivalry between the two teams.

Speaker 3 (01:26:31):
Mate, because Nelson College is the home of rugby until
it was found out that Wanganui was the home of
home of rugby.

Speaker 8 (01:26:37):
Oh no, no, mate, got that rong?

Speaker 3 (01:26:40):
Do you know that? Do you know that story? No?

Speaker 8 (01:26:44):
I haven't heard that story, but I can tell you
now Nelson College is the home of rugby.

Speaker 3 (01:26:50):
Mate, because it's quite interesting because an esteemed rugby journalist
and look, and I hate to say it, but it's
either is it Romanos.

Speaker 8 (01:27:09):
Joseph Raman? Yeah, I know who he is.

Speaker 3 (01:27:12):
Yes, And I think it's him that has proven that
it was the first game of rugby was in fan
and I'm just trying to I just can't find the actual.
I can't find the actual. Let me just do this.
Let me just google this New Zealand first rugby match,

(01:27:32):
because I know that I've been to Nelson College and
they it's a big deal there that it happened the
first first rugby.

Speaker 8 (01:27:40):
The actual first rugby game was played at just below
the center of New Zealand. Yes, and that was where
the first game was played, So that's I could No,
I'll put I'll put my six months on at Nelson College.

Speaker 2 (01:28:04):
Mate.

Speaker 8 (01:28:04):
I know Joseph Ramanes and.

Speaker 3 (01:28:07):
Look, and I don't necessarily know that it was him
that came up without and someone alluded me to it,
and I've since read about it. But now I'm friendly
trying to Google and I can't find it. You won't
now either, Hang and I've got it. I've got some website.

Speaker 8 (01:28:22):
I don't believe everything you see on the internet.

Speaker 3 (01:28:25):
The first know on football match in New Zealand under
rugby rules was played with Fang Nui in eighteen sixty nine.
Charles Monroe organized a matcha Nelson in eight eighteen sixty nine.
Charles Monroe organized and matcha Nelson in eighteen seventy after
playing at schools in London. So it does seem to
be that, And that's on the New Zealand History and

(01:28:45):
Sucking Apedia of New Zian website. But I can't quite Yeah, rot,
so Ron Polanski was the guy that came up with it.
I apologize it was Ron Polinski.

Speaker 8 (01:28:54):
Yeah, oh, well.

Speaker 3 (01:28:56):
And he found he found, he found an article in
a paper.

Speaker 8 (01:29:03):
Well, I've got some of the earliest history of New
Zealand and a.

Speaker 13 (01:29:07):
And Rugby.

Speaker 8 (01:29:08):
So yeah, no, well no I went back off until
I see the official information. Now, just getting off the subject,
my ancestors on my mother's side built the cathedral at
so we're related to Bishop Harp on my mother's side,
Bishop Harper who was the first bishop in Canarbry in

(01:29:29):
eighteen fifty six, and the cathedral was built started being
built in eighteen sixty four and finished in nineteen oh four.
It was built by Sir George Gilbert Scott and it

(01:29:51):
was designed by the architect of Benjamin Mountford.

Speaker 3 (01:29:58):
Okay on Mountaford Are.

Speaker 8 (01:30:01):
Yeah, no, I've got an open mind to it, but
it's a lot of money to fix it and our
family's out of it now. But my grandfather and great
grandfather ran Duncancott for lawyers, so they were the biggest
they're all through in New Zealand and so they had
an office in a cathedral square, so I know that
area very well and they had to when the earthquake came,

(01:30:25):
they had to just well they had to get rid
of it actually, so the office, the head office is
just a little bit out of christ Chips.

Speaker 3 (01:30:33):
Now, hey, I found the article. I found the article
about It's an article that the Herald New book reveals
fog he's the first place in New Zealand. The host
rugby party was Irish soldiers, and that's in that's in
doctor Ron Polensky's book.

Speaker 2 (01:30:50):
I don't know.

Speaker 8 (01:30:50):
I was just well, they're not they're not New Zealanders.

Speaker 3 (01:30:53):
Mate, Thank you, Alistair. Nice to hear from you. So
the Olympic questions for you. I didn't know this, mad golfer.
Trump treated his congratulations to Lydia, the only winner he

(01:31:14):
did this for. Apparently, well that's something if you can
win Trump over well, he loves his golf. Wow, didn't
know that because someone tell me the see of the
article of that. Didn't know that Trump had done that.
I love Trump because now the Democrats are calling the

(01:31:38):
Republican ticket weird. But Trump was saying on I think
they're just talking about Jadie Varance, not talking about me,
because Jadie Varnt is his appointment. But anyway, anything to
have deflected a criticism from yourself a even throw your
VP under the bush. That's a good text. Thank you.
Lydia was the champion of the games. For me to

(01:31:58):
play five hours a day for four days, that's more
than a marathon. And to get in the Hall of Fame.
So amazing from our wee country. But I think everyone
did well and the middle toll has been the great.
Congratulations to all who competed. Joe from fairly Marcus. Not
only was I blown away by the performance of the
amazing athletes at the Olympics, but I thought the logistics

(01:32:20):
of the whole two weeks were incredible when you think
of the number of venues and the organizations involved in
each of those, down to the last clipwood and pen
along with a chair and little red flag for the
man to wave the foul throw row in South and Yeah,
it was incredible every time the aerial shots no cars.
He Paris has gone car free seems to work well.
I think the underground must be good. No complaints about

(01:32:43):
traffic jams or roads or venues not finished, just seamless, Marcus.
The Olympics was awesome to watch the butcher and that kayaking.
He's allegiend like so many others. Don't forget about the
trampolinist failing really feels so from Yeah, I would have
liked him to get a medal too, and the female
because they were thereabouts. So I'm hearing you, Marcus, did

(01:33:09):
the fact the athletes had to use pins to hold
their bibs on in twenty twenty four seem odd Their
bibs only had their names, which could surely be embossed
on their kit. Seemed hard case to have them clipped
on with crappy old pins. Good point, Marcus. My Olympic
question is does anyone know why it was okay for
the cox and and the eight women's in the eights

(01:33:31):
rowing could be the opposite gender. There were some females
in the male boat and vice versa, Marcus. Check out
the last lap of the nair'scar race. Tell me your thoughts, Marcus.
If Reagan cannot enter the next Olympics and breaking, what's
the prediction of what she'll enter next? No comment, but

(01:33:59):
she was a classic. Donald Trump praises most impressive Parislympic
gold medalist Lydia Coe. Lydia Coe's gold winning performance hasn't
been missed by former US President Donald Trump, currently going

(01:34:20):
for a second term. Crumpy, She's a long held passion
for golf, took to his own social media platform to
celebrate co. Congratulations to Lydia Coe on winning the Olympic
gold medal. In golf, Trump wrote, I met her at
Trump Turnbury in Scotland and she is most impressive not
only with her golf clubs but also as a person.

(01:34:42):
Way to go, Lydia, I know great people, So there
we go, then, is a classic sentence. There's a lot
to unplickan there's a lot to unpicking this sentence. And
what word do you think is doing the heavy lifting?
Trump Comma, who was the target of an assassination attempt

(01:35:05):
last month. Comma posts mostly political content on his truth
social platform, no kidding to any of it. Head on
midnight for the final for Lurry, how's it all going
people in this land? Yes? And then onwards and upwards
from tomorrow. But at the moment to what did you?

(01:35:26):
What meddle moment? Thing did you enjoy the most? For me,
the most exciting was here with Lydia Cohen, the peers
winning the gold that were and also watching the gold
last night and the female sprints in the cycling was
unbelievably exciting. I didn't see the kayak race live with

(01:35:49):
Butcher Win that so I think that would have been
a great one to watch also, and yeah, watching the
last thirteen fourteen fifteen sixteen, seven of the last six
holes in the gulf. Even though I knew the result.
We just got up Saturday, Sunday, Saurday morning. I think
it wasn't said to the kids, come let's watch this. Oh,
by the way, here's the question I have got in

(01:36:13):
the marathon, both the men's and the women's did they
go through the tunnel where Princess Diana was killed? They
didn't make much of a song, or you wouldn't make
a song of a dart that was the wrong word.
I apologized they didn't make reference to that, but certainly
for me, some of the tunnels looked eerily familiar. And

(01:36:35):
I keep chanting that's where Princess Diana's car at the wall,
and the kids said, who's Princess Dinah? Here we go
the cheapest creepers, And I tried to explain it was
reevery complicator said you could have been our queen. We're not. Actually,
that's not quite right, because anyway, they weren't that interested.

(01:37:01):
I thought I'd got one of those, but didn't. I
predict co would win the gold Dan predictions. Do you
have any Olympic predictions? Now, Like with every event that
we do, there's always a prediction show, and this Olympics
is no different. I predicted Lydia Coe would get a goal.

(01:37:23):
That was one of my predictions. One of the What
were the other ones I got right? I had someone
well known come off and e scooter that was true.
What was the other one I got right?

Speaker 17 (01:37:29):
Dan?

Speaker 3 (01:37:30):
I just two of them right so far. But some
of the predictions that people have made of the Olympics right,
We've just got to gigantify it. Someone Chris is the guy.

(01:37:52):
Chris's predictions were Harry and Meghans separate and divorce. Harry
goes back to the UK children's down in the US,
Trump reelected dies before inauguration, large earthquake in the Pacific,
ring of fires, tsunami reaches New Zealand, anti government protest
over unexpected issue. And it's pretty vague, but the last
direction of Chris is U Zealand wins unexpected medals at

(01:38:15):
twenty twenty four Olympics. Do you people think any of
the medals were unexpected? And which one? I mean, they're
all sports we're good at, right, golf and cycling, and
was there an unexpected medal? My gut feeling is to
say no, and I am judge and jury on this,

(01:38:36):
but I'll seek your counsel on this. Were any of
the medals unexpected? An unexpected medal would be to me,
would be winning the marathon, or winning the break dancing
or winning the heptathlon. Were any of those medals unexpected?

(01:38:57):
Let me know if you've got an opinion of that,
because I'd like to have that discussion also too. This
is my real question for you. Did they go through
in the marathon? Did they run through the day in
a death tunnel? The tunnel where she died? I don't
know what else to call it. I don't want to
sound insensitive. Yeah, so I'd like to know some information
about that, Marcus. Race bibs are not the least but uncomfortable.

(01:39:21):
They're lightweight, have RFID trackers for timekeeping, and have reconveent
way to track runners. There are other options, but racing
bibs and safety pins are poplar because their most comfortable
effective option. They're also used by the photographer automatically group
the photos much faster and more efficient than facial recognition.

(01:39:42):
I thought the rfid's and the marathon are on their shoes. Shoes, Marcus,
could you please tell me how many different sports are
in the games? Thank you, BEV. I think there was
thirty four or thirty six. I know because the children
have been endlessly asking me questions. Of course, they're fixcated

(01:40:04):
on golf and what's a birdie? What's an aw albatross?
Watsonn Ostrich, what golf course has the highest par hole?
I don't know what we did before Google head. Good
Dave Marcus, welcome.

Speaker 13 (01:40:20):
Joy Marcus certainly has been love, enjoyed just bed every
moment of it. I have become a couch potato in
the last two weeks and enjoyed for everything from the archery,
the rowing, of course. And I did watch the Ethiopian
run through that bridge and had looked to me really
similar to.

Speaker 3 (01:40:41):
Thought, Hey, Dave, just before you go into your fill spiel,
did you have poor Man's TV or did you have
Sky TV?

Speaker 4 (01:40:48):
Could you?

Speaker 13 (01:40:50):
I had this Sky TV, and I was spoilt for choice.
And I enjoyed from this to that. And I enjoyed
the Warriors, even though I did skip from the All
Black game to that was the Gold Coast. I think
I have discussed that with you here are not And

(01:41:11):
I enjoyed the Rugby League far more than what I
enjoyed the All Blacks game. But Marcus, I think for mine,
I know there were no unexpected gold medals. I don't
think maybe that peddler, but we are Quakers and a
paddling nation. We are swimmers and cyclists. And for me,
the big winner for me is Paris and France. What

(01:41:34):
a fantastic and organized everything was well organized, clean, tidy.
I'd have did really enjoy the bike race that took
us on a journey through.

Speaker 3 (01:41:45):
That wasn't wasn't that? Wasn't that fantastic to watch all
of that and to see everything in.

Speaker 13 (01:41:50):
That absolutely and looking at the everything from the Champs
and the Art Triomphe and the Eiffel Tower that you
saw up close. Evidently that Tim was saying, it's just
been painted by hand. And I don't think about the painting.
I think of the preparation, and it's all going to

(01:42:10):
be prepped before that's right, and what have you. And
the outskirts of Paris which is very much wheat belt,
or so it seems, and corn fields almost anyhow, I'd
like to say Bonzur and au Revoir.

Speaker 3 (01:42:31):
A bit of the and what I like is because
it starts kind of with the swimming in the shooting,
which are fine but they're not the best sports. But
we're end with the marathon, and you know, it just
gets better. And I missed the relays, the four by
four hundred trek and field didn't work time time wise
for me. I would have liked to have seen more
of that because the I think the two hundred was
a bit of a buzzkill? Was it because the guy

(01:42:52):
had COVID?

Speaker 4 (01:42:52):
Right?

Speaker 16 (01:42:54):
Right?

Speaker 2 (01:42:55):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (01:42:55):
But the rest of.

Speaker 13 (01:42:56):
It, the biggest, biggest highlight can I say was I've
already seen Probably the archery. I love the archery and
I don't know why. I think it was a coverage.
And of course the invalids. The palace, I think it's
a palace. It looks like a palace. Yes, the thing
of Napoleon. Yeah, where he's in tomb or where he's

(01:43:20):
where he is, so I assume that's an abby.

Speaker 3 (01:43:24):
What do they bring him back from the island where
he got sent?

Speaker 13 (01:43:29):
Yeah, that's where he is. His sarcophagus is that scopus?
There'd be right?

Speaker 8 (01:43:38):
Yeah.

Speaker 13 (01:43:39):
So that's my take on it. Fantastic.

Speaker 3 (01:43:45):
You're not going to take up sports, climbing or anything.

Speaker 13 (01:43:47):
Are you, Dave, if you knew me, if you saw
at one hundred I pulled down the wall markers brilliant.

Speaker 3 (01:43:57):
Okay, well, there's no weight on talk back. Everyone's then,
aren't they. That's the way it works. Nice to hear
from your Dave Marcus. No middles are expecteds. We send
our athletes to the games to will not have holiday.
Oh yes, I think everyone behaved well in the New
Zealand team, which was always good too, didn't they. We
didn't hear anyone complaining now having to be disciplined because

(01:44:19):
I'll tell you what. I've never mentioned this before, but
I reckon. I don't even know what the chef dimission is.
But if you're not hearing about a chef dimission or
he's good, this guy Avery, we need him every year
because sometimes the chef de missions make it all about them.
I don't want to mention names, but there's been ones
in the past. They go on and on and they're
always in the headlines. Talk about this too, but this

(01:44:41):
one's been quite quite so well. Doneder him if it
wasn't him, I think he's been excellent. Get rid of
the treble jump to that's neither use nor um and
that's crazy, but yes, could someone tell me about the tunnel?
Got no information about that, But anything about your comments
about this, I'd love to hear from your Marcus till
twelve greatest Olympics of our time? I don't know what

(01:45:02):
the previous greatest Olympics were been, going back in time.
Japan great but sad for them, was a year late
and because of COVID no one was there, Rio tickets
too expensive, no one much went. Twenty twelve? Was it

(01:45:27):
Soul London? No good? That silly thing with the queen
and that sort of musical number to beginning that's sort
of stuck in the throne? Boris Johnson? Yeah, No, I
don't think that was that well anyway, didn't think it
was as great as it could have been. I think

(01:45:48):
the marathon and stuff. The streets were empty because of
terrorist threats and stuff. Two thousand and eight Was that Soul?
Was that Beijing? Beijing? Well like the swimming area, that
kind of bubble thing, but too much pollution. Two thousand
and four that Soul Ethan's got no mere ethened at all.
Two thousand Sydney. I can't remember much about it, not

(01:46:13):
in only sixth Atlanta. There was that bomb, Wasn't they
remember that?

Speaker 8 (01:46:17):
No?

Speaker 3 (01:46:17):
No two can't remember much of me, but barcelon no,
I think this is the best we've had. At least
that mirror of christ Church is not saying New Zealand
should host them. Was the Winter Olympics he was big
on anyway, Read the text Marcus got an old newspaper
from twenty thirteen of Lydia at christ Church Clemont Reserve
must have been eleven years old. Then a good shot

(01:46:39):
and respect the Kiwi and the English guy.

Speaker 17 (01:46:41):
Yay.

Speaker 3 (01:46:42):
After the marathon, yeah, he was great. That seems a
long time ago. But that second in the triathlon, what
a metal that was to go down that filthy river,
to get in a lead and just get pipped off
at the end. That was an exciting time to watch that.
That was a great event. The triathlon. I never liked
the triathlon for me, that's the most improved event. Always

(01:47:03):
kind of treated it with derision. A good unit. That
guy seems spoke well, straight shooter. Good on them, I agree, Marcus.
I think the biggest disappointment of the Olympics was how
the men seven team let us down. Were the best
rugby nation in the world. Why can't we win Golden Sevens?

(01:47:23):
Super proud of the rest of athletes though, James, Yeah,
I reckon it's ended. Are you Rugby's fault? They need
to send the superstars there. They missed a trick there.
I don't know if they don't want to player it's
because they're scary head knocks or quite what it is.

(01:47:45):
But you think the Olympic medal would mean something to
those rugby players. It'll be fighting to get I don't
know what the Yeah, I don't know what goes on there.
But the French put their best player in. We should
have put ours.

Speaker 2 (01:48:00):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:48:00):
Someone says, look at the USA basketball team. They sent
their big guns and to win them a gold The
other was arrogant of the rugby UNI. And I don't
know the situation there. I know you've got a circuit
that they get on with the sevens. They go round
to different places and people dress up and sing Sweet Caroline.
But we needed to win that meal. That was embarrassing
to not even get in the finals. What went on there? Anyway?

Speaker 1 (01:48:27):
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